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Old Armenian
Etymology
An Iranian borrowing, probably Middle Median because of the prothetic a-. Compare Middle Persian (ʾxšʾd, “depressed, troubled”), Middle Persian (ʾxšʾdyh, “suffering”), Sanskrit क्षत (kṣata, “hurt”). Further connections outside of Indo-Iranian uncertain.
Noun
աշխատ • (ašxat) indeclinable
- toil, work; torture, trouble
- աշխատ առնել ― ašxat aṙnel ― to give trouble, to fatigue, to harass, to incommode, to disquiet, to disturb; to torment to plague, to rack; to weary; to importune, to pester
- աշխատ լինել ― ašxat linel ― to take trouble
Usage notes
The word is not used independently (but is found in compounds) apart from the two idioms mentioned above.
Derived terms
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “աշխատ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “աշխատ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “աշխատ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 17
- Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 452